Rabelais Inc.

de Pomiane, Edouard

Recettes de Grande Cuisine, par le Gastronome Dr. de Pomiane.

N.p. Liebig; Maron-Esperonnier, Imp. [circa 1950s]. Small, accordion fold booklet (13.5 x 11 cm.), [8] pages. Text in Italian. Promotional booklet for the Liebig company's various bottled sauces, including Sauce Madere, Sauce Perigueux, Sauce Chasseur, Sauce Americaine, and Sauce Italienne. The booklet includes twenty-six recipes, attributed here to the famous medical doctor and gastronome Edouard de Pomiane, pseudonym of Édouard Pozerski. The little booklet is printed by the lithographers, Maron-Esperonnier.....

Price: $50.00

[First Presbyterian Church (Colorado Springs, Colo.). Women's Society]

Choice Recipes. [Compiled by the] Women's Society, First Presbyterian Church, Colorado Springs, Colorado.

Colorado Springs, Colo. [The Church, between 1931 and 1933]. Octavo (20 x 14 cm.), 84 pages. Advertisements. “Index” is actually a table of contents. Title from cover. Date of publication determined from external evidence. ~ Evident first edition. An attractive if modest church cookbook from El Paso County, from a congregation that had formed – in 1872 – before the name Colorado Springs became attached to it. More than five.....

Price: $75.00

[German Manuscript Cookery Book]; Lehmann, Matilde

Recept Buch für Matilde Lehmann in Liebemuehl. 1853.

Liebemuehl, Prussia: 1853. Octavo (20.5 x 17 cm.), 140 pages. Text in German, in one neat hand. A cookery book created for Matilde Lehmann of Milomlyn, Poland, formally Liebemuehl in the Province of Prussia. Contains two hundred eighty-six food recipes scaled for household use and partially indexed at the front. Written in narrative form, the recipes include a wide variety of desserts such as puddings, cakes, and torts as well.....

Price: $750.00

Lewis, Gwen (pub.)

Buckskin Cookery. Souvenir Cookbook of Pioneer Recipes Donated by Old Timers and Natives of B.C.Vol. I: The Pioneer Section & Vol. II: The Hunting Section.

Quesnel, B.C. Gwen Lewis, 1957. Two volumes, small octavos, 56 & 56 pages. First edition. Contains recipes for Northwest pioneer staples including bannocks, Saskatoon jelly, Buried fruit, and various medicinal concoctions. The hunting volume includes game recipes for coyote, buffalo pemmican, mud pack salmon, moose tongue, and much more. Very thorough little books. Both near fine in publisher's printed wrappers.

Price: $90.00

Lindgren, Don & Mark Germer

UnXld: American Cookbooks of Community & Place. Volume 1, Alabama – District of Columbia.

Biddeford, Maine: Rabelais Inc., 2018. Volume one only (all published to date). Small quarto (26.5 x 19 cm.), 169 pages. Illustrated throughout in color. Title Index. Bibliography. Designed and with a letterpressed wrapper by Scott Vile of the Ascensius Press in Bar Mills, Maine. FIRST EDITION. ~ ~ The first volume in a long-term effort to examine AMERICAN COMMUNITY COOKBOOKS as a genre, within a context of other cookbooks which.....

Price: $50.00

[Mother Goose – Maine Creamery Co. (Providence, R.I.)]

Ice Cream Rhymes of Mother Goose.

Providence, R.I. Maine Creamery Co. Ice Cream, [circa 1915]. Booklet, stapled in wrappers (15.7 x 8 cm.), [12] pages, including wrappers. Illustrated throughout, in four-color spot printing on newsprint. An advertising pamphlet with popular nursery rhymes rewritten to promote ice cream. Evidently published for hire by various ice cream producers, which including this one, the Maine Creamery Co., of Providence, R.I. There are institutional holdings of this book issued by.....

Price: $90.00

State Fish Exchange, California Department of Agriculture.; [Florence, B.B., Secretary]

Five Hundred Ways to Prepare California Sea Foods. Compiled by State Fish Exchange, California Department of Agriculture.

Sacramento: California State Printing Office, 1928. Oblong booklet, stapled in wrappers (15 x 24 cm.), 119 pages. Text printed vertically, while the covers are displayed horizontally. Second printing; the original was issued in 1927, and it was issued almost every year until 1935. More than eighty California seafood varieties, listed in alphabetical order, with recipes for each. Some wear to edges, and bit of soil to a few leaves; generally.....

Price: $60.00

Sysonby, Ria; Sitwell, Osbert (introduction); Messel, Oliver (illustrator)

Lady Sysonby's Cook Book. With an Introduction by Osbert Sitwell and Decorations by Oliver Messel.

London: Putnam, 42 Great Russell Street, 1948. Small octavo (19 x 13 cm.), xi, 264 pages. Frontispiece and ten plates, all color. Index. Second edition, issued thirteen years after the original. The intervening years had included the war, and so the recipes are offered this second time with a willingness to embrace substitutions. Lady Sysonby has also included a recipe, “Queen Victoria’s Soup – by especial favour by the Esquire.....

Price: $200.00

Valk, Mrs. A. G. & Miss M. E. Newton (compilers); Committee of St. Paul's Church Guild, Washington, D.C

The Way to a Man's Heart: A Cookery Book.

Washington, DC: Judd & Detweiler, Printer, 1890. Octavo (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), 110 pages. Subtitle on cover and flyleaf: A Cook Book. "Index" (page 17) is actually a table of contents. Advertisements on pages 1-14 and 95-110. First edition. Two hundred twenty ascribed recipes gathered in support of a beloved urban space where "The seats in the church are free at every service". The dishes bear echoes of a British.....

Price: $350.00